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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm honored to receive the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association Sexualities Section for my paper "Networked Sexuality: Boundary-Making under Unsettled Categories". It's been a rough few months, and I'm grateful for lil reminders like this that say, keep going.

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Interesting discussion... I've been grappling with whether to code political speech 'at face value' as it's the easiest to operationalize yet invites trouble since people don't usually subscribe to those accounts themselves. And if we code the connotations, it's hard to ascertain its validity

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Florencia Torche @ftorche.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

New Post-Doc Opportunity: Princeton OPR is hiring postdocs in population studies. PhD in demography or related fields (sociology, economics, epi, etc.) welcome. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/181246 Review begins 3/1/16. Please share!

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Social Psychology Quarterly @spquarterly.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

SPQ is excited to announce a Special Issue on Social Status! We are inviting scholars to submit their theoretical and empirical articles that examine status by December 15th, 2026. Below is the information for the Call for Papers. #SPQ

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I read a paper today that uses Bayesian instead of Frequentist statistical inference and hmmmmmmm, it’s quite cool.

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A perfect addition to my ‘method or theory?? why not both ;)’ reading list as I continue my quant side quests this year

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Adding to my reading list for Political Behavior. I wonder how this relates to the 'reactive ethnicity' literature, at first glance it reminds me of it

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My favorite academic advice blog posted a new bit!

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Heavy news these days. There’s some kind of ancient magic in the tides of Coronado Island that calms my mind.

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This weird feeling after finally submitting a manuscript that's been too long in the making, like I'm able to close a chapter of my life, but in a sense, the real game is just starting...

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Dr. Xiaogao Zhou @xgzhou.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Bryn Mawr College is hiring an Assistant Professor in Sociology with a specialization in social movements! The applications are due on September 19th. It is a fantastic place to be a scholar and educator—please spread the word! I'm happy to answer questions to the best of my ability!

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I'll be sharing my paper at Harvard's “Migration & Immigrant Incorporation” Workshop on Sep 30. This is (to my knowledge) the first to merge 13 waves of the Pew National Survey of Latinos. I traced TWENTY years of trends in (anti)-immigration attitudes among Hispanic Americans. Join me!

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

💥I published a book review!💥 A massive thanks to Alex for the shoutout. Go check it out! Especially relevant to ppl studying immigration, public opinion, politics, and policy reform. @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Aligns with an idea I had, just last month 🫡 Is this a sign to write it out or...

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

🚨 My review of In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular is forthcoming (!) in International Migration Review. The book is just out, by @akoustov.bsky.social, and offers a bold take on migration politics. I look up to his work, so it feels unreal that IMR asked me to review it.

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Marcy Carlson @marcyc.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Can’t wait to see all the new science that will be presented this spring at #PAA2026! Everyone is welcome, so please think about what research you have to share. Early career scholars, feel free to reach out if you have Qs about the submission process or @popassocamerica.bsky.social!

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ASA Int'l Migration @asamigration.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

REMINDER: section reception (co-sponsored with Asian and Asian American section) tonight, Sunday, 8/10 West Toronto West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: Ballroom Level/Gold, Toronto 8-10:30 pm

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

If you see me in Chicago at #ASA2025, feel free to ask me about my tried and true Chicago food map 👀.

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Are you an early bird attending #ASA2025? Grab your coffee and join us bright and early this Saturday :). I'm presenting on the surprising findings of immigration and right-wing movements. I'll discuss why some immigrants hold seemingly contradictory opinions.

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Not sure if I cleaned the data or the data cleaned me. After wrangling 20 years of Pew Hispanic surveys, a harmonized dataset now exists. So does a slightly more harmonized me (maybe). #sociology #data #survey #jokes

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Last month, I wrote a book review as part of Prof. Jake Watson’s grad seminar. Being the savvy mentor that he is, he encouraged me to reach out to International Migration Review. They were interested, and today, I officially submitted my review.

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Nothing like finals week to make me wildly fantasize about all I’ll accomplish in the three months of summer. The self-expectations are are high, the calendars are color-coded, and the delusion is fully operational. 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♂️

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

So excited to see this out in the world—I’ve been looking forward to this remote control piece. Congrats to my advisor on this timely pub! 📄👏🏼

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Important work...✍️ Citing this in my working paper

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Ann Jiang @annjiang.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Some light news in a heavy week: my paper was accepted by #ASA2025 for the panel “Right-Wing Politics, Mobilities, and Immigrant Conservatism” (co-sponsored by @asapolisoc.bsky.social & @asamigration.bsky.social ). I look forward to engaging with folks on migration and political trends--in Chicago!

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Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New preprint! Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard. We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3 #NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci 🐦🐦

Screenshot of top half of first page of paper. The paper is titled: "When People are Floods: Analyzing Dehumanizing Metaphors in Immigration Discourse with Large Language Models". The authors are Julia Mendelsohn (University of Chicago) and Ceren Budak (University of Michigan). The top right corner contains a visual showing the sentence "They want immigrants to pour into and infest this country". The caption says: Figure 1: Dehumanizing sentence likening immigrants to the source domain concepts of Water and Vermin via the words "pour" and "infest".

The abstract text on the left reads: Metaphor, discussing one concept in terms of another, is abundant in politics and can shape how people understand important issues. We develop a computational approach to measure metaphorical language, focusing on immigration discourse on social media. Grounded in qualitative social science research, we identify seven concepts evoked in immigration discourse (e.g. "water" or "vermin"). We propose and evaluate a novel technique that leverages both word-level and document-level signals to measure metaphor with respect to these concepts. We then study the relationship between metaphor, political ideology, and user engagement in 400K US tweets about immigration. While conservatives tend to use dehumanizing metaphors more than liberals, this effect varies widely across concepts. Moreover, creature-related metaphor is associated with more retweets, especially for liberal authors. Our work highlights the potential for computational methods to complement qualitative approaches in understanding subtle and implicit language in political discourse.

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Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I’ve never written a tribute before, and don’t really know how to write one. To be honest, I’ve never lost someone so important to me in the past 30 years of my life. But I feel I really need to write something about Professor Michael Burawoy.

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Fabien Accominotti @faccominotti.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The ASA section on Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society is a vibrant community of computational and network scholars, interested in how larger social patterns emerge from local social dynamics. Sounds exciting? You can learn more – and join us! – at the link below: tinyurl.com/2e7exdfw

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Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society Archives | American Sociological Association

The purpose of the Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society Section is to encourage and enhance research, teaching and other professional concerns relating to the scope and limits of explaining m...

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